Tuesday, May 30, 2006

EWU president returns to Walla Walla for visit

Decades after his family spent time in Walla Walla as migrant workers, EWU president Rodolfo Arevalo returned to the southeast Washington city to talk about his plans for Eastern with the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin.

EWU student grows up car-less

There was a fun story in the Sunday Seattle Times about the family of EWU junior Peter Peterson, from Issaquah, who grew up in a car-less family. The Petersons weren't anti-car, Peter's dad said, they just didn't find the need to have one...

Arevalo's story reaches the coast

It took 10 days, but Shawn Vestal's story on EWU president Rodolfo Arevalo made a surprise appearance in today's online Seattle Times -- I'm not sure if it is in the print version because I don't have a copy of the Times today...

EWU Institute partners w/ Foundation NW

Eastern's Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis received a $108,000 grant from Foundation Northwest and is putting that money to use to enhance the Community Indicators Initiative. Read all about it in the following story which ran in the Saturday S-R.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Tuition increase proposed at EWU for next school year

The EWU Board of Trustees is pondering a proposed 6 percent tuition increase for EWU resident undergrads next year. The details are in this S-R story from this weekend -- they even snuck a quote from me into this one...

First month very busy for new EWU prez

Eastern's new president, Rodolfo Arevalo, sat down with the Spokesman Review's Shawn Vestal last week for about 45 minutes, recounting the first six weeks of his presidency. The feature ran in last Saturday's S-R.

All-Sports Trophy goes to Eagles

It was the best Big Sky Conference year ever for the EWU Eagles across the board -- and that was reflected by the Eagles claiming the conference's All-Sports Trophy for the first time ever. The Eagle men's third-place finish at the Big Sky track championships pushed them past perennial winner Montana.

Monday, May 01, 2006

GenPrime shows EWU's tech transfer potential

GenPrime, a biotech company that developed out of EWU's biology department by a couple Eastern professors and an EWU graduate student, is the lead subject in this technology transfer story from the front page of the Sunday Spokesman. Also featured in the story is EWU professor Harm-Jan Steenhuis, an expecrt in technology transfer in the Inland Northwest.

Application dropoffs a bit befuddling

Application numbers for next fall quarter are unexpectedly down at the state's public universities. Some of the possible causes and effects are discussed in a piece by Shawn Vestal in Saturday's Spokesman.